Quotes About Possibility

If you don't even know where the door is, how can you ever expect to be able to walk through it? Of course, you don't have to walk through it unless you want to. All I'm testing here is whether or not you know where the doorway is. I'm giving you choices.

If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

But in the words of Joichi Ito, director of MIT's media lab, "If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

One article creates visibility, which in turn puts you in front of other journalists, creating the possibility of more articles and visibility.

We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination.

Those who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have.

It's not always easy, but it's always possible.

had always believed an immersive virtual reality afterlife was possible in principle. Maybe

As soon as we have the power to release our minds from the immediate here and now, in a sense we are free. We are free to revisit the past, free to reframe the present, and free to anticipate a whole range of possible futures. Imagination is the foundation of everything that is uniquely and distinctively human. It is the basis of language, the arts, the sciences, systems of philosophy, and the all the vast intricacies of human culture.

One of the most basic reasons for thinking that it's too late to be who you are truly capable of being is the belief that life is linear.

Instead of standing on the shore and convincing ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture onto its waters—just to see.

PRINCIPLE #2: YOU CREATE YOUR OWN LIFE Whatever your history and circumstances, you should never feel locked in by what has happened to you up to now. It is often said that you cannot change the past but you can change the future. And so you can, because of your very nature as a human being.

If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Call-by-reference went out of fashion in language design a couple of decades ago because of the possibility for unintended consequences.

Isn't there a way to break the patterns of the past and tune into our highest future possibility—and to begin to operate from that place?

Although it is true that everyone orients himself in accordance with the data supplied by the outside world, we see every day that the data in themselves are only relatively decisive...One man resigns himself to circumstances because experience has shown him that nothing else is possible, another is convinced that though things have gone the same way a thousand times before, the thousand and first time will be different.

And opportunities are like stories in books," I retorted. "All we need do is pick one.

I think that I also don't know what possibility and obligation are, but I know very clearly what need is. Desire? … Desire, we make up.

Nothing is truly impossible. It's all a matter of looking at things in just the right way.

Ah, se… Muitas vezes seus pensamentos tinham girado em círculos em volta desse "se", brincando com a ideia de como sua vida teria sido "se".

Durante toda a vida lhe disseram que toda situação impossível tem uma solução, e por que esta seria diferente?

Sang Ly, we are literature—our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human. So